aggregaatiohedelmästä

An aggregaatiohedelmästä is a botanical term referring to a fruit that develops from a single flower with multiple ovaries. These ovaries are not fused together but remain separate entities within the flower. As the flower matures, each individual ovary develops into a small, distinct fruitlet. The defining characteristic of an aggregaatiohedelmästä is that these fruitlets remain clustered together on a single receptacle, forming what appears to be a single, composite fruit. However, botanically, it is considered an aggregate of simple fruits.

Examples of aggregaatiohedelmästä include the strawberry, where the fleshy red part is the enlarged receptacle, and the tiny "seeds" on the surface are actually the individual fruitlets (achenes), each containing a single seed. Another common example is the raspberry or blackberry, where each drupelet, a small fleshy lobe, develops from a separate ovary within the same flower, and they all aggregate together to form the characteristic berry-like structure. The arrangement and number of fruitlets can vary significantly between different species. The development process ensures that the seeds are dispersed collectively, often through the attraction of animals to the aggregate structure.